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Obama’s Tax on the Middle Class

by Sheldon Richman October 12, 2009

President Obama has no intention of keeping his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Hiding this will take some clever moves, but maybe, now that he has won the Nobel Peace Prize, he’s trying for an Olympic gold medal in mental gymnastics. The tax increase for the middle class will come ...

Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan

by James Bovard October 10, 2009

It seems like only yesterday that President George W. Bush was bragging about having brought freedom and democracy to 25 million Afghans, a key theme in his second inaugural address. For 8 years, the American people have been fed one big lie after another regarding Afghanistan. Now, when the Pentagon is saber-rattling to vastly increase the number of U.S. troops ...

The Great Depression and the Current Recession: Similarities and Differences (video)

by Robert Higgs October 8, 2009

On October 5, 2009, Robert Higgs gave the following speech at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series.” The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Dick Cheney’s Pawns on Guantánamo

by Andy Worthington October 5, 2009

I like to believe that, despite studying Guantánamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama’s own party) voted foran idiotic, paranoid, and unjust motion proposed by Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ken.), which was designed ...

Exit Afghanistan and Leave Iran Alone

by Sheldon Richman October 2, 2009

The Obama administrations quest to control the health-insurance industry has dominated the headlines for months, but finally with the news out of Iran and Afghanistan foreign policy has again asserted itself. It was almost easy to forget that the United States maintains a worldwide empire, but the reminders came leaping off the front pages and the television screens. Word that ...

The Failed War on Drugs (Video from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2009

Freedom Watch 44 w/ Jacob Hornberger and Wayne Allen Root

The CIA, Assassination, and the War on Terrorism

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2009

In late July, the New York Times disclosed a secret plan by the CIA to assassinate suspected terrorists around the globe. According to the Times, the agency decided against implementing the plan, possibly because of the risk of being prosecuted for murder in countries in which the assassinations would take place. Actually, it’s not at all clear yet that the CIA is ...

Democratic Misrepresentation

by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2009

If you want to know how representative government works not in airy theory but on the ground, contemplate these facts: (1) Except perhaps for the rarest exception, no member of Congress will have read the entire final 1,000-plus-page bill that seeks, in the New York Times’s words, to “reinvent the nation’s health care system”; and (2) in July the ...

Second Amendment Battle (Audio from Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch FoxNews.com)

by James Bovard October 1, 2009

Freedom Watch Podcast: 10/05/2009 Freedom Watch 42 w/ James Bovard, Dr. Eric Novak, Andy Levy

The Bogus Anti-Terrorist Crackdown on Financial Freedom

by James Bovard October 1, 2009

In the post–9/11 era, federal officials are treating cash as they would a suspected weapon of mass destruction. They have created legions of new restrictions and reporting requirements for citizens’ money. But the new controls have done nothing to make Washington any more competent at protecting Americans from real threats. Federal experts estimated that Mohamed Atta and the other 18 ...

Langdon, Stark, Bennington, and the Triumph of a Private Army, Part 2

by Scott McPherson October 1, 2009

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 At the end of June, Burgoyne struck south with more than 7,000 men: 3,700 British regulars, 3,000 German mercenaries, 470 artillerymen, 400 Indians, and approximately 250 Canadian and American loyalists, and with the optimistic hope of gaining more Indian and loyalist troops as they went. As his forces approached the ...

Keynes and the Assault on Savings, Part 1

by Gregory Bresiger October 1, 2009

Part 1 | Part 2  In the long, run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on ...